@Ashish I found mine at 1015 Pico boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90405, US.Attached picture shows it on a map. https://gyazo.com/614dde1e71c3831a09624452d08c6f6e It was only CP 315, but had Spark (7) and Thunder Punch (40).

You're spot on. I've also noticed similar results with both Scyther and Pinsir if you swap in Fury Cutter. Scyther especially only needs 5 hits (approximately 2 seconds) to get a charge for Bug Buzz. Watch out for when Gen II comes out if Scisor can learn Fury Cutter as well.

Do a calculation for Dragonite and Kangaskhan as well if you don't mind. I have a theory that Stomp actually works out to be better than Earthquake and Dragon Pulse to be better than Dragon Claw if you take into account primary attacks and overall damage per second.

Message me through my YouTube channel (trinsicity) if you find it to be the case as well :)

What a disappointment, walked with my near perfect IV Pika for a good 30km to end up with a garbage Raichu with brick break. Might as well feed the worthless thing to the professor.. after all that work. This game wastes a lot of my time turning all my awesome IV pokemon into bad moveset junk pokemon good for vanity only.

calculating the best moveset in gen II isn't purely a matter of DPS anymore, but now its base damage, the basic move's energy gain, and energy cost per damage inflicted.

because niantic didn't bother to buff thunder's damage in the gen II move shift while raising the limits on lesser charge moves, it is outclassed by a few of its "lesser" counterparts now and sits low in most moveset lists.looking at other pkmn movesets, thunder now is inferior to some of its lesser DPS counterparts for gym offense - thunderbolt, zap cannon, and depending on the charge move paired with it, even discharge. those moves simply are capable of inflicting more damage than thunder over time.

because of this, no gen I raichu can be called optimal now, sadly this applies to a 91% holiday raichu that i've formed a bond with. legacy tshock/thunder raichu comes on top among its legacy movesets, but is now only 87.07% of spark/wcharge's effectiveness.

the one buff thunder got is that it seems to inflict its damage the moment it animates, like what hydro pump does now. though the animation is way out of sync with its sound effect as a result. so its at least an effective finisher now.